Quotes About Sin

Our systems, perhaps, are nothing more than an unconscious apology for our faults--a gigantic scaffolding whose object is to hide from us our favorite sin.

Doctrines That Can Take You To Hell",

I, who cannot stay in my chamber for a single day without acquiring some rust, and when sometimes I have stolen forth for a walk at the eleventh hour of four o'clock in the afternoon, too late to redeem the day, when the shades of night were already beginning to be mingled with the daylight, have felt as if I had committed some sin to be atoned for.

The humanity of what is called "sudden conversion" has never been insisted on as it deserves. . . . While growth is a slow and gradual process, the change from Death to Life, alike in the natural and spiritual spheres, is the work of the moment. Whatever the conscious hour of the second birth may be—in the case of an adult it is probably defined by the first real victory over sin—it is certain that on biological principles the real turning-point is literally a moment.

Laura began to model herself more and more on those around her; to grasp that the unpardonable sin is to vary from the common mould.

In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice that I am not a Republican.

Sin, guilt, neurosis --they are one and the same, the fruit of the tree of knowledge.

Sin has not destroyed the creaturely relationship of man to his maker, who made him a cultural creature with the mandate to replenish and subdue the earth. Sin has not destroyed the cultural urge in man to rule, since man is an image-bearer of the Ruler of heaven and earth. Neither has sin destroyed the cosmos, which is man's workshop. Culture then, is a must for God's image bearers, but it will be either a demonstration of faith or apostasy, either a God-glorifying or a God-defying culture.

A sin is two sins when it is defended.

Menny people spend their time trieing tew find the hole whare sin got into this world--if two men brake through the ice into a mill pond, they had better hunt for sum good hole tew git out, rather than git into a long argument about the hole they cum tew fall in.

It would be a sin to help you destroy yourself.

Reason is often the slave of sin; it strives to justify it.

To sin is a human business, but to justify sins is a devilish business.

But really, why should you distress yourself? Whoever stirs up the past — out with his eye! Who is not a sinner before God and to blame before the Tsar, as the saying is?

This ideal of glory and grandeur--which consists not merely in considering that nothing wrong that one does but in priding oneself on every crime once commits.

Rakes, those male Magdalenes, have a secret feeling of innocence similar to that which female Magdalenes have, based on the same hope of forgiveness. 'All will be forgiven her, for she loved much; and all will be forgiven him, for he enjoyed much.

How often we sin, how much we deceive, and all for what? I am near sixty, dear friend . . . I too . . . All will end in death, all! Death is awful . .

He aqui como acabo mi vida. Nos moriremos y no quedara nada de nosotros. Por que tenemos que pecar, pues?

Basta que pensemos, queridos hermanos y hermanas, en la vida que llevamos, basta que pensemos que continuamente despertamos la colera de Dios, y hacemos sufrir a su divino Hijo para que comprendamos que no podemos ser perdonados. Una ruina espantosa nos amenaza, sufrimientos eternos nos esperan. ¿Y como salvarnos?... ¿Cómo huir, hermanos, de este incendio terrible? ¡Ah! Ya arde la casa y no hay salida que nos dé paso!

We sin so much, we deceive so much, and all for what? I'm over fifty, my friend … I'll … Everything ends in death, everything. Death is terrible." He

To deny that in a child after baptism sin remains is to treat with contempt both Paul and Christ.

You can drift into sin, but not into righteousness.

When you're not feeling holy, your loneliness says that you've sinned.

BLESSED ARE YOU WHO HAS given each man a shield of loneliness so that he cannot forget you. You are the truth of loneliness, and only your name addresses it. Strengthen my loneliness that I may be healed in your name, which is beyond all consolations that are uttered on this earth. Only in your name can I stand in the rush of time, only when this loneliness is yours can I lift my sins toward your mercy.